The writer and broadcaster on a career ranging from Émile Zola to children’s poetry with wee-wee jokes
Michael Rosen is a man ambushed by stories – his own and other people’s. He thinks he has published four books so far this year, though neither he, nor anyone from what turns out to be five publishers, seems sure. No sooner had he sent his latest, a hefty memoir, to press than a stash of family photographs emerged from a cupboard in the US, adding an irresistible twist to his life story, and that of his extensive tribe. The result, he cheerfully announces, is that the proof copy I have just read is already out of date as he has added a new postscript to the finished version.
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It took a bit of time to realise the BBC were sacking me, and years to realise it was because I was on an MI5 list
Zola’s passion was for truth and justice – if you’re passionate about truth and justice it will turn you on to politics
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